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Fiber vs. Cotton — What's the Difference?

Fiber vs. Cotton — What's the Difference?

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Fiber

Fiber or fibre (from Latin: fibra) is a natural or man-made substance that is significantly longer than it is wide. Fibers are often used in the manufacture of other materials.

Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose.

Fiber

A slender, elongated, threadlike object or structure.

Cotton

Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium, having showy flowers and grown for the soft white downy fibers surrounding oil-rich seeds.

Fiber

(Botany) One of the elongated, thick-walled cells that give strength and support to plant tissue.
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Cotton

The fiber of any of these plants, used in making textiles and other products.

Fiber

Any of the filaments constituting the extracellular matrix of connective tissue.

Cotton

Thread or cloth manufactured from the fiber of these plants.

Fiber

Any of various elongated cells or threadlike structures, especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber.

Cotton

Any of various soft downy substances produced by other plants, as on the seeds of a cottonwood.

Fiber

A natural or synthetic filament, as of cotton or nylon, capable of being spun into yarn.

Cotton

To take a liking; attempt to be friendly
A dog that didn't cotton to strangers.
An administration that will cotton up to the most repressive of regimes.

Fiber

Material made of such filaments.

Cotton

To come to understand. Often used with to or onto
"The German bosses ... never cottoned to such changes" (N.R. Kleinfield).

Fiber

An essential element of a person's character
"stirred the deeper fibers of my nature" (Oscar Wilde).

Cotton

Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.

Fiber

Strength of character; fortitude
Lacking in moral fiber.

Cotton

Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.

Fiber

Coarse, indigestible plant matter, consisting primarily of polysaccharides such as cellulose, that when eaten stimulates intestinal peristalsis. Also called bulk, roughage.

Cotton

Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.

Fiber

(countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.

Cotton

(textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.

Fiber

(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.

Cotton

(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.

Fiber

(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.

Cotton

Made of cotton.

Fiber

Dietary fiber.
Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.

Cotton

(transitive) To provide with cotton.

Fiber

(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.

Cotton

To supply with a cotton wick.

Fiber

(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.

Cotton

To fill with a wad of cotton.

Fiber

(category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).

Cotton

(horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.

Fiber

(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

Cotton

To cover walls with fabric.

Fiber

(cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

Cotton

(tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )

Fiber

One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

Cotton

To make or become cotton-like

Fiber

Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

Cotton

To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.

Fiber

The inherent complex of attributes that determine a person's moral and ethical actions and reactions; sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force.

Cotton

To develop a porous, cottony texture.

Fiber

A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.

Cotton

To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.

Fiber

That portion of food composed of carbohydrates which are completely or partly indigestible, such as cellulose or pectin; it may be in an insoluble or a soluble form. It provides bulk to the solid waste and stimulates peristalsis in the intestine. It is found especially in grains, fruits, and vegetables. There is some medical evidence which indicates that diets high in fiber reduce the risk of colon cancer and reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. It is also called dietary fiber, roughage, or bulk.

Cotton

To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.

Fiber

A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth.

Cotton

To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.

Fiber

A slender and greatly elongated solid substance

Cotton

To rub or burnish with cotton.

Fiber

The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions;
Education has for its object the formation of character

Cotton

To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

Fiber

A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

Cotton

A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

Cotton

The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

Cotton

Cloth made of cotton.

Cotton

To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
It cottons well; it can not choose but bearA pretty nap.

Cotton

To go on prosperously; to succeed.
New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would?

Cotton

To unite; to agree; to make friends; - usually followed by with.
A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another.
Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion?

Cotton

To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; - used with to.

Cotton

Silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

Cotton

Fabric woven from cotton fibers

Cotton

Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

Cotton

Thread made of cotton fibers

Cotton

Take a liking to;
Cotton to something

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